Mathilda POTVIN

(b. abt. 1862 , Québec Province, Canada d. 16 October 1898 , Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada )

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Mathilda POTVIN was born abt. 1862 in Québec Province, Canada

Mathilda POTVIN was the child of Georges POTVIN and Marie GAUTHIER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Francois POTVIN and Marie-Anne THIBAULT (maternal) Antoine GONTHIER and Catherine TREMBLAY

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Mathilda married Alexis TREMBLAY 23 December 1892 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Alexis TREMBLAY was born 16 December 1843 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements). Alexis was the child of Joseph TREMBLAY and Angele SAVARD.

Mathilda POTVIN died 16 October 1898 in Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada .
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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Mathilda POTVIN married

Alexis TREMBLAY-- Date: 23 December 1892 Place: Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada

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Alexis TREMBLAY was the child of Joseph TREMBLAY and Angele SAVARD

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Children of Alexis TREMBLAY and Mathilda POTVIN:

Isabella TREMBLAY (b.11 December 1892, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada d. 2 August 1968, Québec, Québec, Canada )

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1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1867 - Canada becomes a sovereign nation by an act of the British Parliament (the British North America Act). Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick are united as the Dominion of Canada.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 Marriage / Partner
Mathilda POTVIN and Alexis TREMBLAY 23 December 1892, Les Éboulements, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-des-Eboulements)

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada